You can use the class photo roster to show photographs (where available) of users who have access to your course. This includes users with any role including students, instructors, and teaching assistants. Where a photograph is not available a placeholder image is used.

Accessing Instructor Quick Tools

1 From the My University of Southampton screen find the Tools box, within the box click on Instructor Quick Tools.

2. You will be presented with a list of quick tools.

Using the Quick Tools to make courses available/unavailable to students

1. Click on Course Availability.

2. You will be presented with a list of courses where you have the privileges to change their availability.
3. Current availability of each course is indicated by an On/Off toggle.
4. To make a course available click on the Off icon beside it to turn the availability setting to On.
5. Likewise to make a course unavailable click on the On icon beside it to turn the availability setting to Off.

Using the Quick Tools to make the same announcement to multiple courses at once.

1. Click on Post announcement

2. Select to which courses you wish to make the announcement by ticking the box beside each required course.
3. Enter a subject and a message
4. If you wish for an email to be sent to users tick the Email announcementtick box. If you do not tick the box no announcement email will be sent.
5. Click Submit to finish.

Using the Quick Tools to make send an email to users on multiple courses at once.

1. Click on Send Email.

2. Select to which course’s users you wish to send email by ticking the box beside each required course. Note that the email will be sent to all course users, not just students.
3. Enter a subject and a message
4. Select whether you wish to receive a copy of the email once, or once per course by choosing the relevant option under “Send this Email to Myself”.
5. Click Submit to finish.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to check submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3. You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course. Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view. If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Feedback Studio Marking Overview

4. The selected paper will be opened in the GradeMark view. The blue buttons in the side panel denote the online marking tools.

QuickMarks Button

5. The QuickMarks button will show you your QuickMarks pane, where you can select QuickMarks, or move between different QuickMark sets.

Feedback Summary Button

6. The Feedback Summary button will take you to the section of Feedback Studio where you can add and edit general comments and voice comments. This area is useful for providing overall feedback relevant to the submission.

Rubrics and Forms Button

7. The rubric / forms button will display the rubric or grading form which is currently attached to your assignment (but only if you’ve attached one to the assignment).

How to view Originality Reports generated for submissions made to your course.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Select Turnitin Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you wish to view Originality Reports.

Access Originality Report

3. Once the assignment inbox has loaded, you should see a list of students along with the details of their submissions. To view an Originality Report for a particular student, click on the percentage score which appears in the Report column.

Access Originality Report

4. You will now be taken to the Feedback Studio interface with the ‘similarity’ layer turned on. This is indicated by the red buttons in the side panel.

Match Overview

5. The first button in the similarity section of the side panel is the ‘match overview’ button. This shows you an overview of all of the matches relating to the submission you are viewing. Clicking on a source on the right hand side will highlight the matching text for that source within the document on the left.

All Sources

6. The second button down is the ‘All Sources’ and provides a further breakdown of matches. For instance, Paragraph one may have been taken from a specific source online, but may also have been used elsewhere online by someone else. The ‘All Sources’ button will give you a full breakdown of ALL of the sources where the match has been found, rather than just the primary match. This button also allows you to exclude any of the matches shown.

Filters and Settings

7. The third button allows you to view filters and settings for the similarity layer. For instance if you want to exclude matches below a certain percentage, or under a certain number of words.

Excluded Sources

8. The final button in the similarity area of the side panel allows you to view excluded sources. Excluded sources are any matches which you have decided not to include in the originality report, for instance if you believe they are correctly referenced, or can be ignored for some other reason. You can also restore matches from this section in the event that you have excluded them by mistake.

When you come to attach files to an entry you are submitting to Blackboard you may see a dotted line around the “attach files” box.

This signifies that if you wish you may drag and drop files from your computer into the box as a faster way to attach files than browsing for them one by one.

This animation shows this process in action.

When dragging and dropping files in this way it is important to ensure that the filenames are different from each other, and that no file with the same name has already been added to the entry you are creating.

If you have a Blackboard Assignment, Test, or Survey, you can send reminders to students who have not yet completed the assessment.

Note this does not apply for Assessed blogs, journals, discussion boards, nor TurnItIn assignments. To do that you could use the email button above the Grade Centre instead.

1. Access the Grade Centre

2. Find the column for the Blackboard Assignment, Test, or Survey about which you wish to remind students who have not yet submitted.
3. Hover your mouse over the column name and click on the action button.
4. Choose Send Reminder.

5. You will be asked to confirm that you wish to send the reminder and be told how many students will receive the email.

6. You will receive confirmation that the email will be sent.

7. The students will receive the email which will be in the format shown below.

Turnitin’s GradeMark tool has recently been given a makeover and a new name, ‘Feedback Studio’, although you will still hear us using both terms interchangeably for the time being. The redesign has been on beta release for the last 18 months, but was finally pushed into full release in summer 2017 (with the old interface being switched off). The new interface has been available in our instance of Blackboard since June 2017.

The new ‘Feedback Studio’ interface applies to (and integrates) both the online marking tools and the originality report features of Turnitin. The new interface has been freshened up, and introduces some small changes in how certain things are done. We recommend that users try out the new interface before heavy marking periods to familiarise yourself with the changes.

Do I need to do anything?

No, staff will not need to do anything to see or use the new interface. All users will automatically see the new interface when they mark work or view an originality report. All that we ask is that you remain patient when using the new interface (as some things will have moved around or may work slightly differently to what you are used to), and contact ServiceLine (serviceline@soton.ac.uk / x25656) if you have any questions about using the new interface, or to give us any feedback which we can pass on to Turnitin.

Does the new interface affect other areas of Turnitin?

The only areas which have been re-designed are the marking interface, and the originality report interface. These two main features have been more tightly integrated. Others areas which you are familiar with such as the Turnitin assignment inbox, and the process of adding assignments remain unchanged.

What will actually change?

There are two main changes – the most obvious one being a cosmetic change. In addition, there are some small chances to how you add comments to a submission (Turnitin have streamlined this workflow to remove the need to move your mouse around the screen quite so much).

What does the new interface look like?

The new interface looks like this:

In the view above, the side panel (on the right hand side) is minimised. The three clearly defined areas of the right hand panel are colour coded:

Blue items are related to marking – adding QuickMarks and Comments, adding general feedback and audio comments, and rubrics.

Red items are related to the originality report for the submission you are viewing.

Grey items are related to downloading aspects of the submission, and viewing information about the submission.